Productivity and economic performance have generated many studies and considerable discussion in economic policy circles. Yet, theoretical and empirical studies focusing on production efficiency have typically ignored the time interdependence of production decisions and the adjustment firms make over time. This book provides a systematic treatment of dynamic decision making and performance measurement.
Productivity and economic performance have generated many studies and considerable discussion in economic policy circles. Yet, theoretical and empirical studies focusing on production efficiency have typically ignored the time interdependence of production decisions and the adjustment firms make over time. This book provides a systematic treatment of dynamic decision making and performance measurement.
Elvira Silva is an Associate Professor in Economics at the Faculdade de Economia do Porto, University of Porto, and a member of the research group of the Center in Economics and Finance at the University of Porto (CEF.UP). She serves as the director of the PhD program in Economics at the Faculdade de Economia do Porto. Her research interests include efficiency and productivity measurement and nonparametric modeling. Spiro E. Stefanou is Professor of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Florida. He is internationally recognized for research focusing on productivity, innovation, and efficiency in the agricultural and food manufacturing sectors in the U.S. and Europe. He holds a part-time appointment as Professor in the Business Economics Group at Wageningen University (Netherlands). Alfons Oude Lansink is Professor and Head of the Business Economics Group at Wageningen University (Netherlands), Director of the Wageningen School of Social Sciences, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida. His research focuses on economic modeling of firm behavior and analysis of technical, economic and environmental performance of farms and agribusiness firms.
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* Dedication * Forward * Introduction * Chapter 1 Overview * 1.1 What Is a Production Technology? * 1.2 Production in the Context of Time * 1.2.1 Short run versus long run and being in disequilibrium * 1.2.2 Changing Capacity * 1.3 Characterizing Adjustment * 1.3.1 Adjustment Cost Hypothesis * 1.3.2 Isoquants * 1.3.3 Non-convex production relationships * 1.4 Implications of Adjustment for Measuring Performance * Chapter 2 Primal Analytical Foundations of Dynamic Production Analysis * 2.1 Introduction * 2.2 Set Representation of the Adjustment Cost Production Technology * 2.2.1 Adjustment cost production possibilities set * 2.2.2 Adjustment cost input requirement sets * 2.2.3 Adjustment cost producible output sets * 2.3 The Adjustment Cost Transformation Function * 2.4 Remarks * Chapter 3 Dynamic Economic Decision Making * 3.1 Introduction * 3.2 Bellman's Dynamic Programming Approach * 3.2.1 Cost minimization: Two-period framework * 3.2.2 Iso-cost analysis * 3.2.3 Cost curves in the short run and long run * 3.2.4 Profit maximization * 3.3 Generalization to the Continuous Time Case * 3.3.1 Cost minimization * 3.3.2 Profit maximization * 3.3.3 Dynamic duality implications * 3.4 Formulating the Cost Minimization Problem in DEA * 3.5 Remarks * 3.5.1 Nonparametric approaches * 3.5.2 Parametric approaches * Chapter 4 Dynamic Decision Making, Distance Functions, and Productive Efficiency * 4.1 Introduction * 4.2 Adjustment-cost Directional Distance Functions * 4.2.1 Directional technology distance function * 4.2.2 Directional input distance function * 4.2.3 Directional output distance function * 4.3 Dynamic Duality and Measurement of Productive Efficiency * 4.3.1 Intertemporal cost minimization and duality * 4.3.2 Temporal cost inefficiency measures * 4.3.3 Temporal profit inefficiency measures * 4.4 Remarks * 4.5 Appendix: Proof of Lemmas * 4.6 Appendix: Proof of Properties DDT.1-DDT.8 * 4.7 Appendix: Proof of DDI.1-DDI.9 * Chapter 5 Dynamic Structure of Production and Productivity Change * 5.1 Introduction * 5.2 Scale, Scope, and Capacity Utilization * 5.2.1 Scale elasticity * 5.2.2 Cost elasticities and economics of size * 5.2.3 Economics of scope and cost concepts * 5.2.4 Capacity utilization * 5.3 Constructing Measures of Productivity * 5.3.1 Structural approach * 5.3.2 Luenberger indicator * 5.4 Remarks * Chapter 6 Econometric Approaches * 6.1 Introduction * 6.2 Functional Forms * 6.3 Structural Parametric Approaches * 6.3.1 Estimation of dynamic inefficiency * 6.3.2 Estimation of Luenberger TFP growth * 6.3.3 Results * 6.4 Remarks * Chapter 7 Nonparametric Approaches * 7.1 Introduction * 7.2 Empirical Nonparametric Construction of Dynamic Efficiency * 7.2.1 Compute shadow value using the Linear Complementarity Problem * 7.2.2 Compute shadow value from the dual problem * 7.2.3 Compute shadow value from the directional distance function * 7.2.4 Compute shadow value from a parametrically estimated value function * 7.3 Empirical Construction the Inner-bound and Outer-bound Technologies * 7.4 Remarks * 7.5 Appendix: R Code for Estimating Dynamic Technical Inefficiency * References .
